Robert Louis Stevenson

Standard Name: Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Textual Production Laurence Alma-Tadema
LAT provided several introductions to works for children. One of these was for a new edition of Robert Louis Stevenson 's A Child's Garden of Verses, 1927, illustrated by Kate Elizabeth Olver ,
Here...
Textual Production Beryl Bainbridge
She later said the non-realism of this tale had dissatisfied her. She acknowledged the influence on it of Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson , and then judged that the best bits . . . have...
Textual Features Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB 's His Good Fairy, from the Illustrated London News of 28 May 1894, features a grand duchess of low origin who staves off guilt-induced madness by returning to live as a peasant and...
Literary responses Mary Elizabeth Braddon
By the time of her death, MEB 's novels had received praise from many great writers of her day, including George Moore , Arnold Bennett , Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas Hardy . Her astonishingly...
Intertextuality and Influence Joanna Cannan
Alison Dunbar, lonely among her fashion-conscious and shopping-mad schoolmates, begins writing her pony story in exercise books (as was Cannan's own habit) and attains the apotheosis of acceptance by a publisher. She also sheds the...
Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Carswell
CC 's father, George Gray Macfarlane , had worked as a young man in the Caribbean and the USA. He exported textiles to the West Indies and was president and a founder of the YMCA
Textual Production Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
After hearing her read from this work while it was still in progress, Henry Newbolt sent a draft to Robert Louis Stevenson . Stevenson responded enthusiastically but was not sure how the author could get...
Textual Production Lettice Cooper
LC published with Home and Van Thal a volume in their English Novelists series: Robert Louis Stevenson: in 1967 it was reprinted in an European Novelists Series.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
TLS Archive (11 October 1947): 518
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Monica Dickens
MD published her first book since she married, the novel No More Meadows, titled from a chilling remark about marriage by Robert Louis Stevenson .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann.
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Textual Production E. A. Dillwyn
EAD contributed to The Spectator (edited by her father's friend R. H. Hutton ) during the 1880s and 90s, writing nearly sixty anonymous reviews for it. She was among the first to praise Robert Louis Stevenson
Intertextuality and Influence Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In Through the Magic DoorSACD wrote of those authors whom he felt to have been his most important influences, including Froissart , Boswell , Walter Scott , Thomas Babington Macaulay , Carlyle , Melville
Reception Carol Ann Duffy
The year following her Selected Poems, CAD won the Lannan Literary Award in the USA, and her work was included in the second volume of Penguin Modern Poets. A decade after that,...
Literary responses George Eliot
Ashton suggests that GE anticipated the case made in Theodor Herzl 's The Jewish State, 1896. The first Jewish readers of the novel were delighted and impressed both by GE 's deep knowledge and...
Literary responses Eleanor Farjeon
British Book News announced that this book gives Eleanor Farjeon a permanent place of honour between Stevenson and Walter de la Mare .
British Book News. British Council.
(1952): 122
The Jesuit Father Mangan , who baptised EF into the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Forster
This examines the lives of Mary Livingstone (mid-Victorian daughter of a missionary in Africa, who married the more famous missionary David Livingstone , a colleague and protégé of her father), Fanny Stevenson (late Victorian...

Timeline

13 November 1850: Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist and travel...

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13 November 1850

Robert Louis Stevenson , novelist and travel writer, was born in Edinburgh.

By 1 December 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson published his most...

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By 1 December 1883

Robert Louis Stevenson published his most famous children's book, the boys' adventure storyTreasure Island.

By 13 May 1885: Robert Louis Stevenson published A Child's...

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By 13 May 1885

Robert Louis Stevenson published A Child's Garden of Verses, a collection of rhymes which proved to have great staying power, and was hardly out of print for a hundred years.

30 September 1885: H. Rider Haggard published his first successful...

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30 September 1885

H. Rider Haggard published his first successful adventurenovel, King Solomon's Mines (which he said he wrote in six weeks to win a bet with his brother that he could equal Stevenson 's Treasure Island).

By 16 January 1886: Robert Louis Stevenson published The Strange...

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By 16 January 1886

Robert Louis Stevenson published The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

1 May 1886: Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped...

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1 May 1886

Robert Louis Stevenson 's novelKidnapped began serialization in Young Folks magazine. It was an instant and huge hit.
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
1 May 2012

1887: The monthly Atalanta: Every Girl's Magazine...

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1887

The monthlyAtalanta: Every Girl's Magazine began publication.

3 December 1894: Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist and travel...

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3 December 1894

Robert Louis Stevenson , novelist and travel writer, died in Apia, Samoa.

1996: US punk writer Kathy Acker published Pussy,...

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1996

US punk writer Kathy Acker published Pussy, King of the Pirates, a feminist-pornographic reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson 's Treasure Island in which the treasure-seekers are a band of women pirates.

1 July 2007: British publisher Tank Books released a series...

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1 July 2007

British publisher Tank Books released a series of classic books, Tales to Take Your Breath Away, designed to mimic cigarette packets—the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in cellophane.
TankBooks: Tales to Take Your Breath Away. http://web.archive.org/web/20090620103236/http://www.tankmagazine.com/tankbooks/.

Texts

Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin et al., Longmans, Green, 1877, p. 1: xi - clxx.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Editors Booth, Bradford A. and Ernest Mehew, Yale University Press, 1994.